April Bailey

🧠 What can 12.8 MILLION tweets tell us about how prejudice evolves? 📣Very excited to share our new research that shows how anti-Asian sentiment and stereotypes shifted during COVID-19 and how political and racialized news coverage related to those changes. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

💖 Love these studies! We often think we're being inclusive when flagging women's gender explicitly when talking about their accomplishments (e.g., "A woman won the Nobel prize in chemistry")... but this often backfires. Free pdf: drive.google.com/file/d/1GtCF... 👇

🗣️ New preprint! @jialin-lin-zhou.bsky.social Western samples tend to think of a "person" as a man. How persistent is this? Striking evidence from two novel groups begins to answer this question; see below for findings from the matrilineal Mosuo and from an age-diverse mainstream Chinese sample ⬇️

Thank you for this Josh—very kind! Worth noting our ideas have deep philosophical roots in de Beauvoir's account of woman as 'the other.' Adding to her philosophical claim about wider culture, we show this is a feature of social cognition, empirically measurable in how people think about categories

Nominations open for ISCON's early career award! For researchers in social cognition. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take 🎯

People represent men and women as balanced, mirror images of each other... right? e.g., women as communal but men as agentic We argue that people actually often see women as one thing but men as MANY New open-access piece out in TiCS, with @rachelesh.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

New PPLS Perspectives episode! PG student Madeline Horner speaks with social psychologist Dr @ahbailey.bsky.social about why we often imagine a “person” as a man — and how subtle gender biases shape language, research, and real-world decisions. Listen here: edin.ac/4tpw8yY

My student Madeleine Horner interviewed @ahbailey.bsky.social about her fascinating research on gender and the prototype of the person concept: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYDg...

If you’ll be at @spspnews.bsky.social this week, consider joining the symposium my advisor Peter Mende-Siedlecki & I are co-chairing on Friday (3:30-4:40 pm; @Room E350), featuring talks from @ahbailey.bsky.social, @jowylie.bsky.social, Cy Butler, and me! #SPSP2026

Ah!! So thrilled for this. The past winner list is chock-full of folks I've looked up to for years and been personally inspired by including Melissa Ferguson, Larisa Heiphetz @drlarisa.bsky.social, and gendered cognition giants Kristina Olson, Ashley Martin

Going through your post-conference notes is a true exercise in self-reflection. In the middle of my notes from SESP I see the intriguing word: "Kaarbo" No idea what it means.

Submit your blitz talk or poster abstract for consideration by Oct 23rd! All are welcome

The SPSP Gender Precon is accepting abstracts for blitz talks and posters! Our invited lineup this year is 🔥 including Janet Hyde, Adriene Beltz, Will Beischel, Sa-kiera Hudson, Ashley Martin, and Gandalf Nicolas. tinyurl.com/Gender26 @sakierahudson.bsky.social @gandalfnicolas.bsky.social

This week, it was exciting to host @acerbialberto.com at @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social to launch our @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded *Weaponised Pasts* research project, through three days of teamwork, followed by a kick-off event at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

There is still time to register for the GENDER.ED Welcome Reception! 25 Sep 5-7pm, CMB Join us for networking, the exhibition 'The Pill. Angry Chuckles', and a discussion on 'Researching Contraception, Gendered Relationships and Social Justice' Visit: edin.ac/45Qu9cd

Growing up is finding yourself doing stuff your advisor did and finally understanding why they did it.

Excited for the upcoming @spspnews.bsky.social! My co-chair @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social and I have organized an incredible symposium exploring how intersectionality shapes perceptions of the Pan-Asian diaspora. We’re honored to be joined by @jinxungoh.bsky.social and @yzhuang.bsky.social!

I'll be in Denver ya'll! @spspnews.bsky.social Still deciding what to attend? Come check out my talk. It's our first time presenting this work! It's part of the symposium chaired by Sara Hendrick, "Equality Struggles: Men’s Home Roles, Women’s Professional Access" ✨

Please join @mikeypasek.bsky.social @sakierahudson.bsky.social @mzarate.bsky.social @giudittascalco.bsky.social and me for our symposium on Intergroup Derogation and Apathy #SPSP2025 on Sat. 1:45. @spspnews.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc

Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

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I'm hiring a lab manager to start this summer/fall, to work on transformative experience, identity change, and empathy in the digital age. Details here: www.crockettlab.org/research-spe... Please share!

New paper in @pnas.org with my incredible advisors @linbian.bsky.social & Susan Goldin-Meadow found that the EQUAL gesture mitigates gender stereotypes subtly communicated to children via biased language, which may offer a new approach to promoting equality with our 👐. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

⏳ 10 days left to submit your abstracts for the #BioXPhi Summit 2025 in Basel (June 25-27)! If you are working on experimental/empirical bioethics or moral psychology, we invite you to contribute. Submit by Jan 31st! 📝 ibmb.unibas.ch/en/public-ou...

Another semester, another kladdkaka mud cake!! After an infamous stretch last semester where I had one of these babies a day for 7 days straight I created a "weekend only" rule for myself. I had a paper rejected today though so am making an exception

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 I am the new Associate Editor for Special Issues at @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social and I could not be more excited to be in the role! We're looking for Guest Editors to propose potential special issues! Read all about what that means at the link below! #SocialPsych #PsychSky 1/n

I made my first 3D plot! I was extremely proud of myself. I think it visualizes the clustering differences between red and blue better than the 2D plot. My (non-psych) partner shrugs and says they look the same 🥲 3D's better right? ps. Can you see which one is (sig) more clustered, red or blue?

Congratulations David!!! Well-deserved. This'll be an excellent talk. If you were on the fence about the SocCog precon, let this push you over the edge (then hop on over to Gender in the afternoon 😘)

ISCON is pleased to announce that David Melnikoff has been awarded the 2024 Early Career Award in Social Cognition. Among his accomplishments, David has some impressive work developing formal models of flow. He'll be giving a talk at the SPSP Social Cog preconference, check it out.

I'm hiring two part-time, paid research assistants! Must be fluent in Spanish and able to work in the UK. Please share with your networks. Ideal for UK post-baccs looking for more research experience to supplement MSc work, other RA work etc. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

New chapter ahead! I'll be moving to the University of Edinburgh this Fall. I am immensely grateful for my time at UNH and the incredible colleagues and students I've gotten to work with. Excited for the new adventure in Scotland